The roll out of the NDIS means disability service providers and the people they employ are exposed to more market forces and this could result in protection for workers.
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Macular degeneration affects the part of the eye that allows you to see fine detail. Age-related macular degeneration is the main cause of blindness in Australia.
Andrew Dodd talks to Rhonda Galbally and Bruce Bonyhady about their role in setting up the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Belvoir St Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night features veteran actor Keith Robinson, who returns to the stage after recovering from Guillain-Barre Syndrome. There’s radical potential in cross-mobility casting – but Belvoir doesn’t quite get there.
Healthy, engaged people and communities will be crucial for a prosperous future for New South Wales. Here are four areas of policy focus that will help achieve that.
Students with disability are experiencing a range of harms in schools, and teachers are struggling to support students with increasingly complex needs.
The NDIS’s aspiration of providing user choice and control represents considerable challenges to disability service providers.
The NDIS provides an opportunity to address the shortfalls of the former institutionalised service system, some of which uniquely impact Indigenous Australians.
Many people eligible for the NDIS are likely to miss out on its benefits. These groups include people who don’t think they have a disability and those who don’t know about the NDIS and how to apply.
Informal early support through intervention programs helps parents understand their child’s newly diagnosed disability. But what will happen when, under the NDIS, these services no longer exist?
Society hasn’t always seen people with disabilities as having the same rights at everyone else. So how did we get to the NDIS, which offers people with disabilities with choice and control?
The National Disability Insurance Scheme has been heralded as the most significant reform since Medicare. So what is it again, how will it work and how can you apply to get funding?
How soft robotics could help paralysed people walk again without the need for clunky equipment.
British rom-com Me Before You has topped the box office in the UK and is about to reach Australia. It has all the clichés of feel-good romance (including a castle), but it has also been labelled a ‘disability snuff movie’.
Students with disabilities find that they must accommodate themselves to institutional contexts which they find profoundly disabling.
Schools are deliberately disregarding disability standards through rejecting school places, being reluctant to make teaching adjustments and having poor attitudes towards disability.
Singers on The Voice last week spoke of the healing power of songwriting. And a new study has found that writing songs about their experience is helping people cope with acquired brain and spinal chord injuries.
In 2012, nearly one-third of voters with a disability had trouble voting. A 2002 law was supposed to fix this problem. New technology may have the answer at last.
How long will it be before we can open doors and send emails with just our minds?
How sexual attraction to a disabled body is about more than just desires of the flesh.
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Disability and Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Social Inclusion - UTS Business School - Centres for Business and Social innovation, and Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living Research Centre and Occupational Therapy Department, School of Primary and Allied Healthcare, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta
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ARC Research Fellow in Indigenous Health, Disability and Community Development, University of Sydney
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